N3 Vocabulary · Test 55

「きたく」is written in kanji as 帰宅, meaning 'returning home.' 帰 (き) means 'to return' and 宅 (たく) means 'home/residence.' The sentence means 'Recently, my father seems busy with work, and there are many days when he comes home late.'

• 1着室 – 着 (ちゃく/つ) means 'to arrive' and 室 (しつ) means 'room.' 着室 is not a standard word and does not read as きたく.
• 2着宅 – While 着 (to arrive) and 宅 (home) are individually valid kanji, 着宅 is not a standard compound word. The correct word for 'returning home' is 帰宅, using 帰 (to return), not 着.
• 3帰室 – 帰 (return) + 室 (room) = 帰室, which is not a standard word. It does not read as きたく and does not mean 'returning home.' The correct compound uses 宅 (home), not 室 (room).

• 帰宅きたく — returning home
• 忙いそがしい — busy
• 遅おそい — late, slow

経営 (management/running a business) with している means 'is running/managing.' 「スーパーを経営している」= 'running a supermarket' is the standard collocation. The sentence means 'Apparently Lee-san runs as many as three large supermarkets.'

• 1商売 (business/trade) as a noun can mean 'business,' but 商売する typically means 'to do business / to trade' in a general sense, not specifically 'to manage/operate stores.' 経営する is the precise term for running an enterprise.
• 3会計 (accounting/bill) refers to accounting or settling a bill, not to operating a business.
• 4貿易 (trade) refers to international trade/import-export, not to running domestic retail stores.

• 経営（けいえい） — management; to run/manage (a business)
• 商売（しょうばい） — business; trade; commerce
• 会計（かいけい） — accounting; the bill
• 貿易（ぼうえき） — trade (international)

きつく (きつく) is the correct choice. The sentence means 'I've gained weight recently, so my pants have become tight.' When you gain weight, clothing feels tighter, so きつくなった ('became tight') fits perfectly.

• 2ゆるく (ゆるく) means 'loose.' Gaining weight would not make pants looser — it's the opposite of what the context requires.
• 3ぬるく (ぬるく) means 'lukewarm' (neither hot nor cold) and is used for temperature, not for how clothing fits.
• 4まぶしく (まぶしく) means 'dazzling/bright' and is used for light, not for clothing fit.

• きつい — tight, strict
• ゆるい — loose, slack
• ぬるい — lukewarm (neither hot nor cold)
• まぶしい — dazzling, bright

あふれそう (あふれそう) is correct. あふれる means 'to overflow,' and 〜そう indicates 'looks like it's about to.' The sentence says 'Because of heavy rain, the river water looks like it's about to overflow, so you shouldn't go near it.' This fits perfectly.

• 1余りそう (あまりそう) uses 余る (あまる), meaning 'to be left over / to remain.' River water doesn't 'remain' in this context; the danger is overflowing.
• 2おぼれそう (おぼれそう) uses 溺れる (おぼれる), meaning 'to drown.' The subject is 川の水 ('the river water'), and water itself cannot drown. People drown, not water.
• 3逃げそう (にげそう) uses 逃げる (にげる), meaning 'to run away.' River water doesn't 'run away,' so this makes no sense.

• あふれる — to overflow, to spill over
• 余あまる — to be left over, to remain
• 溺おぼれる — to drown
• 逃にげる — to run away, to escape

原料 (げんりょう) is correct. It means 'raw material' — the substance from which a product is made. Milk is the raw material used to make butter and cheese, so 原料として使われる ('used as a raw material') is the right expression.

• 1資源 (しげん) means 'resources,' typically natural resources like oil, coal, or forests on a large societal scale. It is not used for a food ingredient in manufacturing.
• 3栄養 (えいよう) means 'nutrition.' Milk is nutritious, but you don't say it is 'used as nutrition to make butter and cheese' — the point is it's a material input.
• 4基礎 (きそ) means 'foundation/basis,' used for abstract concepts like the foundation of knowledge or a plan. It doesn't fit a physical ingredient.

• 原料げんりょう — raw material, ingredient
• 資源しげん — (natural) resources
• 栄養えいよう — nutrition
• 基礎きそ — foundation, basis

しっかり (しっかり) is correct. It means 'firmly, tightly, securely.' The sentence says 'So the child wouldn't get lost, I held the child's hand firmly.' しっかり握った ('gripped firmly') is the natural collocation.

• 1はっきり (はっきり) means 'clearly/distinctly,' used for things like speech, memory, or visibility. You can't 'clearly grip' a hand.
• 3ぐっすり (ぐっすり) means 'soundly/deeply,' used exclusively for sleeping (ぐっすり眠る). It cannot modify 握る.
• 4そっくり (そっくり) means 'exactly/entirely' or 'look-alike.' It doesn't collocate with 握る.

• しっかり — firmly, tightly, reliably
• はっきり — clearly, distinctly
• ぐっすり — soundly (sleeping)
• そっくり — entirely, exactly; look-alike